Video: Rep. Conyers (D-MI) Admits Health Care Bill is Indecipherable

Although we’d like to see all lawmakers read all the bills they sign, we understand Rep. Conyers’s (D-MI) exasperation when he says the 1,018-page House health care bill is indecipherable without a a pair of lawyers to translate it. So maybe each lawmaker should get a whole team of lawyers to help read it?

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We need solutions to the problems ie cost of Healthcare, Government Run Healthcare is NOT the Solution.

Here are some ideas to lower cost Healthcare:

First how to lower Health Insurance Premiums & cost, 1 way is cap on what is paid 4 medicines. Example My husband takes meds that cost 162.00 for 30 pills aprox $5.40 a pill. Our cost is $30.00. So our insurance paid 132.00, just found out about a generic alternative which is $20.00 for 30 pills. IF u can, make sure that you use a generic version of any prescribed medicine because the brand names can help increase ur health Insurance premiums in the end. Next cap on what people can sue doctors because their insurance coverage is outrageously high & that is passed on2 the patients. Its cost the doctors annually 30 billion dollars a year. We need Tort Reform a lot of the people suing doctors is 4 ridiculous stuff. A doctor being sued because he told his patient the truth ie telling an obese person if they dont lose weight they will die is NOT a good reason to sue!

"Too much is the same?" and "We're not making enough changes?" It's like saying, "I don't know how to fly this plane but we still have a problem of folks trying to throw an experienced pilot behind the wheel." Say again? Anything coming out of the halls of Beltway demagoguery never make a darned bit of sense. This whole healthcare debacle doesn't even belong at the federal level to begin with. It's entirely an individual states' matter. "Houston, we've got a problem" are not very comforting words. But I fear far greater and unimaginable problems are being created by those currently holding the reigns of power in the District of Colombia.

My question to Congress: If you cannot read a bill why would you sign it? Anyone over 21 knows you do not sign anything without reading it. Why are these people considered educated? Osmosis does not work in Congress.

How our Congressmen and Senators could vote for a bill without reading it or even knowing what it is really about is like signing a blank check for a house that hasn't even been built yet. As for total cost, that's a torpedo that will sink a nation (ours). We really need to hold our representatives accountable.

Fortunately, I am from Oklahoma where our Congressmen and Senators are not affected by the smoke coming from the Chicago wrecking crew.

This is why they were elected, and why they get paid the big bucks (not to mention excellent benefits). It is their job to READ and understand any legislation that they will be voting on (on behalf of their constituants.

I am so tired of the belly-aching of our elected officials. Maybe Mr. Conyers has stayed to long. Maybe he is being influenced by his disgraced wife. If he can't do the job, or won't, it is time to move on.

This is OUR future health care, not his. KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY HEALTH CARE, unless everyone can have the the same plan as Congress.

You are doggone right! If Congressmen and Senators were to be included in the national health care plan they would be sure to read the bill.

How dare John Conyers or Steny Hoyer (or any other Congressmen for that matter)complain about having to read a proposed piece of legislation before voting on it? That, gentlemen, is what you are paid to do. The American public doesn't care if it takes two days, two weeks or two months to read a bill, or if it takes five lawyers to help you figure it out. Wake up! That is the job! You owe this much to the people who sent you there and who pay you.

Did you really believe that when you were elected to Congress that you were just supposed to make flowery speeches and pose for the cameras and be a bigshot?

That, unfortunately, is an illness affecting far too many of our elected representatives – bigshotitis.

The reason health care is so costly is that we have a third party payer and the majority of the cost is just passed on either to a Insurance company and individuals just pay a small co-pay or is paid entirely by a govt plan and so people really dont care how much something costs because they are insulated from it. The solution lies in Health Care Savings accounts which have a high deductible thus a lower cost and cover just catastrophic events which is what insurance should be used for in the first place and not to cover basic check ups or minor procedures. This would give individuals more control of their health care spending and enable them to use their amount saved for less costly expenditures. Of course the majority of our leaders don't want us to have more control over our health care spending and are trying to seize what little control we do have left!

That's the problem when politicians decide on a career in politics. They do whatever it takes to promote their careers. Even those with lofty ideals in the beginning, begin to obsess about staying in office and they forget why they are in office. They stop working for " the people" and start lying and playing along with the thugs who are doing us all a disservice.

The democrats in the house and the senate are working for the White House, not the people who elected them. It's a sorry day.

It's truly shocking! Voting on legislation that they haven't read! A bunch of sheep.

John Conyers' IQ must be extremely low to make a public statement like that. I hope all the people in Michigan hear his comments and what they are in for if Obamacare passes. He should be run out of the Country!

I understand that John Conyers is the House Judiciary Committee. As a result, He must be a lawyer, can interpret the bill, and doesn't need the other two lawyers to do it for him. Since this bill and others are too big for him to read, he and other congressmen can reduce the size of them by refusing to vote for what they can't read and study to vote responsibly.

[…] we would have 8% unemployment. Well, we know what happened. Now, one Congressman has even said it’s pointless to read one of the reform bills without two days and two lawyers to make sense of it. Deception is the only reason to rush through […]

This is the worst and corrupt administration, I've seen in my 47 years..! All those democrats are disgusting… THEY SHOULD ALL BE FIRED! playing with the american peoples life.. How the hell you are going to sign a document and you don't know what it says!..

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